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Guys thanks a bunch for the cudos!! It feels good coming from all of you! Sam is a "Yellow Dog Democrat" for the record too! He is a fine dog and he is now consistently there every weekend. It has taken a lot of work and faith that he would get there. It is easy to give up on a good dog because this game is so hard, but I knew this boy had it from day one!

Sam is trained by Bill Eckett, Bobby George did his transition work and Clint Avant did his basics. Blackwater is hard to beat, and it is pretty normal to see two or three Blackwater dogs on the podium in all the stakes.

What is impressive about Isaac last weekend is he had not trained for 6 weeks. Just water blinds to build his fitness back up. He tore a shoulder muscle last summer that we repaired and then got some tendenidus this winter because we apparently brought him back to quick so he had been restricted to belly rubs by my wife and water blinds by me for 6 weeks. If I can keep that boy healthy, we will see great things from him.

Remembering back to when we were running Sam and Raven in derby, I figured that one day one of those dogs would have an FC. I can't lie, I'm wising it was Raven, LOL! You guys deserve it. Sam is a great dog and you're a good and dedicated dog man. Congrats Mike!

Raven is a hell of a good marker! What I remenber most about him back then is if he entered a derby he won it.